Windows Server 2003 Help - Policys

Hello, I need some help with our offices Windows Server 2003. When I try and open the policys for the server I get the following message:

"Failed to open the Group Policy OBject. You may not have appropriate rights. "

Ive read the article on the Microsoft website, but I dont know what its getting at.
Im not sure how I go about opening the "PDC Emulator"

Cheers

 

Domain or workgroup?

Why do you need to use the PDC Emulator?

 

Hello, its running a domain. Not sure why I would have to use that, just read about something on the microsoft website.

/b

 

The PDC emulator have something about it and have not.
You need to find one domain controller when you try to open that console.

Do not forget to use one domain admin account to open the console, at least one domain controller must be online and must have the FMSO rules (not all of then).

See this link, and you will find the solution for your problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=294257

 

The reason I asked about the PDC emulator is that a 2003 server domain controller would most likely be controlling an Active Directory domain (which fits with your mention of GPO issues) and the PDC emulator is a fudge to let them pretend to an older Classic NT domain that they are a classic domain controller.

The GPO problem most likely has to do with the user account you are logged in with while trying to edit the GPOs. Sounds like it doesn't have those rights. Are you trying while logged in with a Domain Admin account?

 

Hello, I seem to have fixed it. I removed the domain server and readded it all. I can get into the policys now Ive got another prob regarding the print server.